WEBVTT Big changes could be coming concerning how some Iowans get their mail... A house bill in Washington debated today that would force the postal service to cut costs by cutting the number of addresses they deliver to. Mark Tauscheck live downtown. The bill pushes the postal service to move away from door to door delivery...and utilize these... community mailboxes... called cluster boxes. This mailman working the Woodland Heights neighborhood in Des Moines says it will take him 5 and half hours to deliver mail to 600 addresses on his route... The U-S postal service - that reported almost 2 billion dollars in losses last quarter alone - says delivering mail is the largest single fixed-cost of the postal service...so the latest cost cutting idea floated in Congress is converting 15 million addresses across the country from traditional mail boxes at homes and businesses, to cluster boxes that serve multiple addresses. Dan ritter - 29:38-"i can see where they'd want to save money but at the same time I really like the convenience of just walking outside to my mailbox and getting my mail versus having to worry about going down the street." Most reaction has been predictably against losing to the door delivery... Emily allison - 23:40-"i know they've talked about like cutting down, not delivering mail on mondays or saturdays, whatever - I feel like there may be other options rather than just going to a cluster box." There is also concern about the elderly or disabled walking down the sidewalk to their mail... Mallie sharp - 21:03-"i'm 81 - how would I deal with all this snow?" A statement from the Postal Service Regional office in Kansas City says in part "The primary focus of Postal Service delivery mode conversion efforts now and in the near future ... voluntarily convert from door-to-door delivery to centralized delivery." Greg Rochon says he likes the idea of having his mail locked securely instead of sitting in his mailbox. Greg rochon - 31:37-"don't knock it until you try it, I think it would be a great opportunity and it might pay off in the long run." Many of our viewers especially in the suburbs already get their mail in cluster boxes... A postal service spokesman told me he didn't want to speculate about this bill forcing residential conversions to cluster boxes... ...but he did say the postal service has always made exceptions for the elderly or disabled, and he expects any changes would include those exceptions as well. Mark Tauscheck, thank you.